wtf are you talkiing about here......you really need to get over yourself bro. you take yourself way to seriously. stop being a dick to people around here and alienating others. i understand feeling the need to correct others when you feel the info is biased or half truth. there is a way to bring information to someone without coming off as a supierior douchebag with an infiriority complex if you want to teach lessons on japanese culture from a round eyes view then open a thread yourself in toke and talk. At the end of the day you are just as much an outsider in japan as the english teachers and passer throughs, just because your wifes japanese and you have been back and forth over the past few years doesnt give you anymore credibility to give views and opinions as the next man who lived and worked there.
THANK YOU.
But he "might" be IN the Yakuza! Not "IN" the Yakuza because he is not Japanese...but close enough for it to be a lesson in semantics. lolz.
A recap and further supporting info for our almost Japanese semi-Yakuza.
English teachers and visitors are nobodies. Hmmm doesn't fit my "stereotype" of the mistrusted foreigner at all. They are just nobodies...non-existant sub-human. Yeah once again no racism/ extreme nationalism there. Gee I was sooooo off the mark.
But I guess if you wear a nametag that says "I am not a visitor or an English teacher" Then they drop all the facades and treat you without prejudice as they would a Japanese man/woman. lmao.
The highest % of old people comment that I made earlier? Census information and about a dozen articles read on robots being designed in Japan to care for their massive elderly population. But not being closely tied to the Yakuza...you shouldn't trust my ability to read census information.
The cost of living. Also readily available online or if you happen to know Japanese people, a wife who has been there several times when she was a travel agent, (fyi Taiwan is not far from Japan in distance...
LESS than 2 hour plane ride...for a travel agent it would be a VERY cheap flight and she'd be able to get discounts on hotels...etc) Or English teachers that have worked there.
How did I meet so many teachers? Good question semi-Yakuza. My wife's parents run a major school in Taiwan. In the summers I would go to Taiwan and teach English. English teachers do "tours" of close countries (remember less than a 2 hour flight from Japan to Taiwan) I met about I dunno a dozen of them? English teachers are great people...they have been ALL over Asia not just Japan. They have seen more things than any 5 typical people ever get to see. English teachers also teach privately in people's homes. I'd venture they've been invited to 10 times the amount of people's homes to teach privately than you have as a semi-Yakuza.
To OP: Sorry about all of this. I meant no harm in offering the information that I had. Just thought it might be interesting as I found it interesting myself.
